TNS Charitable Fund

Analysis

TNS Charitable Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Reston, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, TNS Charitable Fund reported income of $237k and spending of $199k, spending 84% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $151k to $237k (+57%), an average of +9.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 631%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, TNS Charitable Fund sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile, and in the 57th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Walindwa Charitable Corporation ($236k), Plymouth Endowment Foundation ($237k) and Fort Bend County Fair Scholarship Foundation Inc ($236k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 130% of the total. At year end it held assets of $125k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $125k.